New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-24
CHOLERA IN THE HARBOR
EIGHT MEN DIE OF IT on THE ALEs1A.
THE SHIP GUARANTEED AND 600 PEOPLE DIE.
TANNED IN THE LOWER BAY.

| this port for over twenty years According to
the ships doctors statement six steerage pas
| sengers and two se8men had died OF Asiatio
chOlera on the voyage from the Mediterranean
ana four more passengers were down with the
same fatal and infectious disease Counting in
the officers and crew. there were 500 persons
aboard, all of whom were dangerously threatened
with the plague.
NO time was lost in turning the steamer back
10 the Lower Bay and putting the passengers and
! crew under the strictest Quarantine rules The
SICK men were landed on Swinburne Island and
put In the hospital for contagious and infectious
diseases there The rest were carried over IN
Holman Island, where an observation bospitaI
was established
AS cases or the plague develop themselves tho
victims Will be transferred to the Swinbnrne
lsiahd hospital Four new ones were discovered
Yesterday, and it Will be ten or twenty days
before any of the Hoffman Island Suspects can
ic released. The officers and crew will STAY on
the steamer to help clean and fumigatc her Then
they too will be sent to the observation hos. itaL
NO CAUSE FOR PUBLIC ALARM.
There can be no doubt that, in spite OF all
the attempts of the Alcsias surgeon 20 Isolate
The cases Of plague they occurred the infection
has spread widely among the mass of dirty Italian
steerage passengers on board the ship Probably
observation hospital Will die. But so promptly
and effectively was the Aesia quarantircd that
the Health Officer no cause whatever for anv
puDhc alarm over the appearance of the plague
in the Lower Bay.
Swlnburnc and Hoffman Islands are completely
cut OIL from the rest Of the islands in the Bay
Inc disease Is not contagious and but four per-
sons, the boarding officer, the health officer him.
scII' the pilot and one Of the Fabrc Company's
agents, have been aboard the vessel and come of
again since her arrival in port. All four of them
Kept on deck and in the open air, and there is
almost no chance of the disease spreading beyond
the two stone dumps in the Lower Iarbor
THE ALEsINs VOYAGE.
Inc tabre line steamers ply between this port
ana Narseiles, stopping on the way out from
Marsc'lles at the following Mediterranean ports:
Genoa, Leghorn, Naples and Palermo. The Aesa
sailed from Marscillcs on August 30 with a crew
Ol 1orty-hNc men under Captain NalIlt SLe
reached Naples on September and took on there
load of Italian emigrants, 56l in all There
were but three cabin passengers, who came from
Aar>ciles The ship left Ma les ON September
3, and touched next at Palermo. Naples had been
quarahtlLtd against cholera for nearly three
months and at Palermo there were fifteen deaths
a day reported from the plague
CHOLERA DEVELOPED.
Some of the stecrage passengers must have had
the disease Lelore cmbaIking but no clear cases
oi cholera developed until September IL when the
vessel was nine days cut. Luigi MaIia a Nea-
loiitan, was taken sick hr>t and died on Scpteu-
Der -. The SHIPS doctor recognized the disease
but tie immigrants did not know Tor some days
what the trOAbe was Paul Antonio DaIIu;lria
steerdge passenger, died the 18th also.
ON september IG Jean Lc Nlyoun, French
sailor, Gied after sickness OF eighteen hours.
AZ Three bodies were buried together at sea.
ihere were deaths each day from September 10
to september %, the victims being ScrdGno de
Lis, Anna Neltriago, Francisco Males and Maria
Antonio Scala. All were buried IN the sea. OF
the eight stccragc passengers taken yesterday to
Swlnburnc Island two are probably cOnyalescent,
three are expected to holl out day or two and
three were on the point OF death last night.
ARRIVAL Al QUARANTINE.
The Ale>a anchored in tie Lower Bay on
thursday night. Yesterday morning she steamed
up TO Quarantine rs il nothing were wrong and
lay at anchor waiting her turn TO lc inspected
Dr. \. W. Smith. the brother OF the Health Oncer
went aboard about a. IN; and found the more
Intelligent passengers in a hcart-rcnding state Of
a4lc' One OF them, a boy of fifteen or sixteen,
well dressed and good looking. Nancd over the
side OF tue ship a. the doctor climbed the ladder
and called out ,AtItcdi,: Doctor. / n shoot
You II you don't take me OIL this minute
Captain Nallu and the ships surgeon turned
over the bill Of health and explained as best
they could the condition OF Things. The surgeon
couli speak nothing but French and Italian. The
captain talked little in broken English The
symptoms Of the disease. they all agreed. were
plainly those of ASlatic cholera. The lil OF
health showed that eight of the passengers and
cirw had died already. and thrt four more
down with the plague. IL had affixed also
anlavits from the United States Con>ul, n &c o.
Naples and Pal 'rmo 10 the effect Tie cholera was
raging in al these ports. In Naples there
them proving fatal. In McSSina there were on the
average two eases day; in Palermo between
thirty and forty.
SENT BACK TO THE LOWER BAY.
DIR. Smith took the papers and at once ordered
the steamer back 10 the Lower bay. The pilOs
who had been taken the day before and had
spent hls time keeping Tar possible from
everybody else on deck, pleaded To he let oil,
but lac had To 20 back with tie vessel. lie got
away IN the afternoon when the passengers we're
uauS!cried Ia the hospital Islands. OIs, other
CABIN passenger threatened 10 lump overheard II
hc wash taken ashore. lie resigned himself To
his fate nnaly. lhc stccIagc passengers did not
seem 10 rVaiiIc the danger they were IA hcso
Italians don scare nj ANYTHING" sand the Health
Ohc.r, except visit from the doctor.
The side wheel steamer George starr was sent
down 10 take the people oil the AcsIa and Health
Ohicer smith, secretary Mclicn ol the Quarantine
Commission and Passenger Agent Ter ku,le.
from the fabre huc oilcc here, followed on the
tug Indian. Dr. Smith had no sooner got aboard
the AlcSa than he discovered "A chl ld hlng near
tie gungWay with all the symptoms cholera.
lis mother said that the ships doctor thought
the trouble only diarrhWa. The baby Was sent
of with the rest to Swinburnc Island. Taking
his place near tie gangway Of the George Starr
DR.. smith then looked over each passenger as he
came of tie ship and easily picked out three
more eases of cholera. Each persons clothes wcre
fumigapl as far possible. and the Starr carried
the load TO the Swinburnc and Hoffman hospitals.
PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES. !
The ship was washed thoroughly yesterday and
Win be fumigatcd to-day. The cargo wlll 10
put through cleaning by sulphurous acid gas.
The pieces ol baggage will be- fumgated separately
and ali the textiles. wOollcns ana the rest, Will
De dIslnIectcd by the special apparatus used for
rags. There were mall, aboard the Alesla.
The ship may be cleaned and put TO use before
the officers and crew are released, the company
putting in new set OF men. james W. ElWcI